Improvement in buttons



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

CLARK M. PLATT, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

IM PROVEM ENT IN BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,261, dated July 10, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARK M. PLATT, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in Buttons 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein- Figure l represents a section of the sheetmetal blank used for making the button. Fig. 2 is a section of the button and rivet, and Fig. 3 is a face view of the button.

These gures are larger than the ordinary button, to represent the improvement more clearly, and similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

Buttons have heretofore been made with a hole in their center to receive a rivet that is passed through the garment. Said buttons have been made by uniting two thicknesses of metal at the edges with a piece of paper between them. This mode of making is costly.

Buttons have also been made of one piece of sheet metal; but the edge of the button formed by the thin sheet metal is sharp and renders the button objectionable.

My invention relates to a button which is a new article of manufacture, being made of one piece of metal, the edge of which is thickened by being folded over on itself, and the center is perforated with one hole for the reception of a rivet or cyelet passing through the garment and button and riveted up to fasten the button to the garment.

In the drawings, a is the disk or button blank, the edges of which are first turned back, as seen at l l, Fig. 1, and then folded down upon the button itself, as seen at 2 2, Fig. 2.

The center of the button is perforated, as seen at 3, for the reception of the rivet b, and the surface of the button is struck down, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3, to increase its ornamental appearance, and the edges of the hole 3 may be raised or pressed forward, as shown, so that there is a burr raised, which will cause the metal of the button to set tightly around the rivet. This button may, however, have a plain central hole adapted to a rivet, eyelet, or other fastening.

The edge of the button may be turned forward instead of back, in either case making the edge of the button sufficiently thick and smooth for use in consequence of the double thickness and fold at said edge.

I do not claim a conical holeor burr around the central hole, as that has before been made.

What I claim, and desire to' secure by Letters Patent, is-

The button formed of a single piece of metal with the edge turned over and with one central hole, as a new article of manufacture, as specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto sct my signature this lst day of November, A. D.-

CLARK M. PLATT.

Witnesses: FRANKLIN L. WELroN, E. LEAvENwoRTH. 

